The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
Roger Karl
as Le colonel
Line Noro
as Frieda
Alexandre Mihalesco
as le tailleur
Jean Heuzé
as le capitaine autrichien
Sandra Milovanoff
as Madame Schleicher
André Valmy
as Ernst
Nicolas Amato
as le sous-lieutenant
Simone Bourday
as
Georges Fronval
as Adolf Hitler
Dalmaïs
as Engelbert Dollfuss
Alain Cuny
as Marinus van der Lubbe (l'incendiaire du Reichstag)
Pierre Labry
as Ernst Roehm
